Nigel Cattlin / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) with Red ant (Myrmica rubra) on bud. Berkshire, England, UK. June.

Colin Varndell / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) in flower. Dorset, UK, May.

Alan Williams / Five-spot Burnet moth (Zygaena trifolii) on Common Vetch (Vicia sativa) flower, Cheshire, UK, July.

Rod Williams / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) Sutcliffe Park Nature Reserve, Eltham, London. May.

David Kjaer / Common vetch (Vicia sativa), Wiltshire, UK, May.

Simon Colmer / Common vetch flowers (Vicia sativa) Climping SSSI, Sussex, UK

MYN / Niall Benvie / Common vetch {Vicia sativa} with tendril, Scotland, UK meetyourneighbours.net project

Simon Colmer / Purple flower on Common vetch (Vicia sativa) Kent, UK

Niall Benvie / Common vetch {Vicia sativa} in flower showing tendrils. Scotland, UK

Nigel Cattlin / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) with magenta flowers flowering in rough grassland, Berkshire, May

Nigel Cattlin / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) with magenta flowers flowering in rough grassland, Berkshire, England, UK. May

Paul Harcourt Davies / Common vetch (Vicia sativa) in flower, Gargano, Puglia, Italy. April.